The name of a Hog signifies together with it a filthy and unclean Animall: so a Horse signifies a strong and patient Animall: a Cow, a devouring, and insatiable beast: a Bear, a strong, victorious, and an untamed brute: a Fox, a shifting, and crafty beast: a Dog, an animall false to those of his own kind: a Sheep, a mild and profitable beast, and hurtful to none. Hence it is that a man is called a Hog, for his sordid and swinish life. And a Horse for his bearing, for which hee is eminent. And a Cow, because shee is unsatiable with meat, and drink, and knows no measure of her belly. And a Bear, because he is mishapen, and stronger then other men. A Fox, because he is a turn-coat, and deceitfull, accommodating himselfe to all, and offending none. A Dog, because he is faithfull to none, but his own mouth, is false, and inofficious to all. And a Sheep, because hee hurts no body but himselfe, and is usefull to all, rather then to himself, &c. [Sidenote: In what hearbs there is a signature.] After this manner also many Hearbs, and Rootes have got their name. So Eye-bright is so called, because it cures weak, and sore eyes. So the Root Bloudwort is so called, because it stops bloud better then any other. So the Hearb Pile-wort is so called, because it cures the piles better then other hearbs. The same also may be said of divers other hearbs, of which sort I could reckon a great number, all which were so called from their vertue, and faculty, as shall more largely be declared in our Herball. Moreover, there bee many Hearbs, and Rootes, which are denominated not only from their imbred vertue, and faculty, but also from their figure, forme, and representation: As, Devills-bit, Five-leaved grasse, or Cinquefoile, Hounds-tongue, Adders-tongue, Horse-taile, Liver-wort, Ox-tongue, Lungwort, the hearb Chameleon, St. Johns-wort, or the hearb boared through, the hearb Dog-stone, Tongue-laurell, Thorow-leafe, Turne-sole, and many others which shall not here, but in the Herball bee severally considered. [Sidenote: What signature there is in Animalls.] The same also holds concerning the signes of Animalls; for by the bloud, and its circle, and by the urine and its circle all diseases that lie hid in Man may be known. By the liver of a slain beast the flesh is known whether it be wholsome to be eaten or no. For unlesse the liver be clear, and of a red colour, but blew, or yellow, or rough, or full of holes, the beast is diseased, and therefore his flesh unwholsome. [Sidenote: The Liver the originall of Bloud.] And it is no wonder that the liver can shew that by naturall signes. For the originall of the bloud is in the liver, and hence through the veins it is diffused into the whole body, and is coagulated into flesh. Therefore from a diseased, and ill affected liver, no sound or fresh bloud can be produced, as of bad bloud no wholsome flesh can be coagulated.